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God name "Acat" | Mayan | God of tattoo artists. Mayan |
God name "Acat" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | God of tattooers. Acca Larentia... |
God name "Acolnahuacatl" | Aztec | Another minor chthonic underworld god |
Deities name "Acolnahuacatl" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor chthonic underworld god. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the MICTLANTECUHTLI complex.... |
Deities name "Ce Acati" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor creator god. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the QUETZALCOATL complex. Also (1) Acatl.... |
Deities name "Co(co)chimetl (soporific)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of merchants and commerce. One of the deities collectively clåśśed as the YACATECUHTLI complex.... |
God name "Ehacatl" | Aztec | God of education and the wind Aztec |
God name "Ehacatl/ Quetzalcoatl" | Aztec | A god of education & the wind |
God name "Kakupacat" | Mayan | God of war with a shield of fire Mayan |
God name "Kakupacat (fiery glance)" | Mayan / Mesoamerican / Mexico | war god. Said to bear a shield of fire with which he protects himself in battle.... |
God name "Omacati" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of feasting and revelry. One of the group clåśśed as the TEZCATLIPOCA complex. Also (2)Acatl.... |
God name "Omacatl/ Acatl" | Aztec | A minor god of feasting & revelery |
God name "Ometeoti (two god)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Primordial being. According to some traditions, the dual principle personified in a bisexual force which the Aztecs believed to be the only reality, all else being illusory. Ometeotl rules in the highest (thirteenth) heaven, Omeyocan (place of duality) which rests above Sun, moon, wind and other elements. Ometeotl impregnated itself to engender the four TEZCATLIPOCAS (aspects of the Sun). Another female aspect, COATLICUE, gave birth to the national Aztec god HUITZILOPOCHTLI. No formal cult existed for Ometeotl, but he was considered to be present in every aspect of ritual.See also TONACATECUHTLI and TONACACIHUATL.... |
Deities name "Tonacacihuatl (our flesh lady)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Primordial deity. In the most widely accepted Aztec cosmogony, this is the self-created, eternal, female principle who combines with TONACATECUHTLI to create all life, transferring souls from heaven to the mortal womb. It exists in the highest, thirteenth heaven and once engendered the Sun god TEZCATLIPOCA, from whom all other deities in the pantheon stemmed. One of the group clåśśed as the Omeotl complex. Also Omecihuatl.... |
God name "Tonacatecuhtli" | Aztec | the being at the center, was a fertility god. He organized the world into land and ocean at the creation of the world. Aztec |
Deities name "Tonacatecuhtli (our flesh lord)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Primordial deity. In the most widely accepted Aztec cosmogony, this is the self-created, eternal, male principle who combines with TONACACIHUATL to create all life. It exists in the highest, thirteenth heaven and once engendered the Sun god TEZCATLIPOCA, from whom all other deities in the pantheon stemmed. Also one of the group clåśśed as the OMETEOTL complex. According to tradition Tonacatecuhtli drove four roads through the center of the earth after the cataclysm of the fourth world age (Atl) to disperse the flood waters of the deluge. His four sons, aided by four unnamed beings, raised the fallen sky which they propped up on great trees created by Tezcatlipoca and QUETZALCOATL at the four cardinal points.... |
God name "Yacacoliuhqui (curved nose)" | Aztec / Mesoamerican / Mexico | Minor god of commerce and merchants. One of the group clåśśed as the YACATECUHTLI complex.... |
Goddess name "Yacahuiztli (nose spine)" | Aztec / Mesoamer ican / Mexico | underworld goddess. With her consort YACATECUHTLI she engendered the night in Aztec cosmogony. One of the group clåśśed as the MICTLANTE CUHTLI complex.... |
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